Tina and Jay have a lot going on. He’s a surgeon, she has a successful optometry practice in the Pearl, and they’ve got a couple of boys into sports and music. Feeling the need for more yard and more room to stretch as their boys were cruising into their teen years, Tina and Jay purchased a property at Hartung Farms.

As the small living scene adapts, three Oregon couples have gone all in on construction of high-end tiny homes. Tiny Heirloom is poised to be a big player in a culture starting to value customization and refinement.

Plenty of people make the move from a smaller to a larger space, but what about the other way around? For an insider’s perspective we spoke with Marilyn Andersen, Principal Broker at Hoyt Realty Group.